
Simon Kornblith : Curriculum Vitae
Education
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2010-)
- Graduate student in Brain and Cognitive Sciences
California Institute of Technology (2006-2010)
- Graduated in Winter 2010 with degrees in Computation and Neural Systems and History and Philosophy of Science
Lake Ridge Academy (1999-2006)
- Graduated Valedictorian in 2006
Awards and Honors
- Swartz Travel Award, Single Neuron Studies of the Human Brain conference (2011)
- National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (2010)
- MIT Norman B. Leventhal Presidential Fellow (2010)
- Caltech Upper Class Merit Award (2009)
- Caltech Carnation Scholarship (2008)
- Presidential Scholar Candidate (2006)
Publications
Mormann, F., Dubois, J., Kornblith, S., Milosavljevic, M., Cerf, M., Ison, M., Tsuchiya, N., Kraskov, A., Quiroga, R. Q., Adolphs, R., Fried, I., and Koch, C. (2011). A category-specific response to animals in the right human amygdala. Nat. Neurosci., 14, 1247-1249. doi:10.1038/nn.2899.
Mormann, F., Kornblith, S., Quiroga, R. Q., Kraskov, A., Cerf, M., Fried, I., and Koch, C. (2008). Latency and selectivity of single neurons indicate hierarchical processing in the human medial temporal lobe. J. Neurosci., 28, 8865-8872. doi:10.1523/jneurosci.1640-08.2008.
Conference Presentations
Kornblith, S., Cheng, X., and Tsao, D. Y. (2011, November 14). Electrophysiological recordings and combined fMRI and microstimulation in the macaque occipitotemporal place area. Poster presented at the Society for Neuroscience, Washington DC.
Cheng, X., Kornblith, S., and Tsao, D. Y. (2011, November 14). Responses of the macaque occipitotemporal place area to systematically varied scene stimuli. Poster presented at the Society for Neuroscience, Washington DC.
Kornblith, S., Mormann, F., Cerf, M., Ison, M., Kraskov, A., Quiroga, R. Q., Fried, I., and Koch, C. (2011, November 10). Single neurons in the human parahippocampal cortex preferentially respond to scenes. Poster presented at Single Neuron Studies of the Human Brain, New York, NY.
Kornblith, S. and Tsao, D. Y. (2010, November 14). A place area in the macaque occipitotemporal sulcus localized by functional magnetic resonance imaging. Nanosymposium talk presented at the Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA.
Polosecki, P., Kornblith, S., Moeller, S., Tsao, D. Y., and Freiwald, W. A. (2010, November 16). Mapping macaque and human face processing networks with dynamic stimuli. Poster presented at the Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA.
Grimaldi, P., Kornblith, S., Wilke, M., Freiwald, W. A., and Tsao, D. Y. (2010, November 16). Neural substrates of face perception in the rhesus monkey. Poster presented at the Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA.
Mormann, F., Dubois, J., Milosavljevic, M., Cerf, M., Ison, M., Tsuchiya, N., Kraskov, A., Quiroga, R. Q., Adolphs, R., Fried, I., Koch, C. (2010, June 9). A category-specific response to animals in the right human amygdala. Poster presented at Human Brain Mapping, Barcelona, Spain.
Mormann, F., Kornblith, S., Quiroga, R. Q., Kraskov, A., Cerf, M., Koch, C., et al. (2008, November 15). Single neurons in the human MTL during visual working memory and rapid series visual presentation. Poster presented at the Society for Neuroscience, Washington D.C.
Kornblith, S., Owens, T., & Krishnan, S. (2008, February 25). Extending Zotero translators and plug-ins. Presented at code4lib, Portland, Oregon.
Kornblith, S. (2001, September 28). Wireless and education. Presented at the Wireless Vision Congress, Newfoundland, CA.
Research Experience
Miller Lab (2011-) - Functional imaging and single unit electrophysiology
Tsao Lab (2009-2011) - Functional imaging and single unit electrophysiology
Koch Lab (2007-2009) - Analysis of single neuron recording data from behaving human subjects with pharmacologically intractable epilepsy
Work Experience
The Center for History and New Media (George Mason University, Fairfax, VA) (2001-)
- Senior Developer, Zotero (2006-) - Co-developed a "next-generation research tool," featuring automatic recognition of reference information from online databases, integration with Microsoft Word and OpenOffice.org, and webpage annotation, currently used by hundreds of thousands scholars worldwide. Co-wrote specification for CSL, the citation formatting language currently used by Zotero, Mendeley, Papers, Colwiz, Peaya, and other reference management tools.
- Developer, H-BOT (2004-2005) - Developed the natural language processing engine for an automated fact-finding service, which was later licensed to Powerset.
- Developer, CHNM Tools (2005) - Managed the upgrade of a set of teaching-related web applications
- Developer, History News Network (2002-2004) - Developed and maintained the content mangement system for a well-known history-related website.
ER Credit Consulting (2004-2006)
- Developed a web-based database providing automation of many business-related tasks
PGP Corporation (2003)
- Assisted in integrating PGP Desktop with Microsoft Entourage

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